“If governments want to gain political and sometimes personal interests for their people and institutions, corruption spreads,” says Vamik Volkan, an emeritus professor of the University of Virginia, a leading expert on political psychology and on the roots of worldwide conflicts. “If there were a war with another country, corruption would be permitted to gain political interests,” Volkan tells TRT World.
Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of registered voters in Boebert’s current 3rd Congressional District and clearly lean conservative, but Republicans hold an advantage over Democrats. Unaffiliated voters in Boulder and Larimer counties, which would be in the proposed 2nd District, also tend to lean more liberal. “Any district that has Boulder in it is going to be very hard for any Republican to win,” said Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
It’s a growing tactic over the last few election cycles as influencers spanning the gamut of right-wing reactionary YouTube pranksters to socialist TikTok stars have decided to throw their hats into the electoral ring, finding plenty of hype and little success. “If a politician can speak to that constituency through skillful (and not cringey) use of insidery memes and language, it signals that they understand and are committed to all of that,” Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, told me last week. “It can be a very powerful message that transcend...
Thanks to the law in Texas and concerns that the conservative-majority Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion is now a major topic of conversation in the Virginia gubernatorial race—and it will likely help fire up potential McAuliffe voters in the waning weeks of the campaign. “This has happened at a time that is almost perfect for Terry McAuliffe and the other Democratic candidates in Virginia,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia and editor in chief of Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
“I was talking to one of my Republican friends a month ago, and he said basically what Youngkin needs to do is he needs to get the Trump turnout in the rural areas, but he needs to perform like Romney in the suburban areas,” said J. Miles Coleman, an assistant editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But, you know, each election is a different event. So you can’t just take the best parts of each coalition.”
The nation’s largest Confederate monument, a statue of General Robert E. Lee, was removed in Richmond on Wednesday. Dr. Jalene Schmidt, a University of Virginia professor and local activist, says she is relieved, to say the least. She feels it has been a long time coming. “In 1890 in the year that this statue went up, there were Black people who raised their objections,” she said.
The nation’s largest Confederate monument, a statue of General Robert E. Lee, was removed in Richmond on Wednesday. Dr. Jalene Schmidt, a University of Virginia professor and local activist, says she is relieved, to say the least. She feels it has been a long time coming. “In 1890 in the year that this statue went up, there were Black people who raised their objections,” she said.
“Psychologists are leading the charge in changing their individual behaviors and the structural components that lead to questionable research practices, including misconduct,” said Brian Nosek, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and a proponent of the open science movement as a bulwark for improving credibility. “Most changes have occurred in journals so far. Funders and institutions have begun to change, but there’s still a lot to do.”
One of the complex issues in this case is that it didn’t happen in the context of a normal police encounter. That’s potentially very important. As the Supreme Court articulated, the Fourth Amendment requires “a careful balancing of ‘the nature and quality of the intrusion on the individual’s Fourth Amendment interests’ against the countervailing governmental interests at stake.” As University of Virginia law professor Rachel Harmon has identified, in use of force cases, the government’s interest is generally limited to law enforcement, order maintenance and public safety, and officer safety.
Peter Norton, a history professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City” has studied how auto travel changed U.S. cities. Our modern “jaywalking” laws didn’t originate from concerned parents or public officials, he explained, but from car companies and their local auto clubs. It was part of a calculated effort to shift the blame for traffic deaths away from drivers to pedestrians, clear the roads for cars and boost vehicle sales. Spoiler: It worked.
(Commentary) Bush thus paved the way for his war against terrorism, an incursion without clear limits in space or time in which everything seemed to count, because it was developed in the name of democracy and Western values. “Fear, power and arrogance characterized the foreign policy of the United States. It was a dangerous mix, “Melvyn Leffler, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Virginia, told EFE.
UVA Health continues to offer testing on Mondays and Tuesdays in Charlottesville.
UVA Health wants to hear from the community as it begins its strategic planning process. According to a release, this process will encompass every aspect of the hospital, from patient care, research and education, and addressing health equity.
Among those astronomers who predicted the existence of such supernovae is Roger Chevalier, of the University of Virginia. In a 2012 paper, he described what such a merger-induced supernova might look like, suggesting that their existence could explain a type IIn supernovae. This poorly understood class of supernova stays brighter for longer and has narrow hydrogen-emission lines. This suggests that the exploding star is surrounded by material ejected by the star that is blocking much of the hydrogen emission, and which is produces a more sustained afterglow as the supernova shock slams into it...
“There’s some things we do in medicine because we’ve always done them this way,” says Dr. Ann Kellams, professor of pediatrics at University of Virginia and lead author of the study. But in reality, there’s very little evidence to support most hospitals’ newborn skin care approach, she says.
A new book published this week, Kimberly Whitler’s “Positioning for Advantage: Techniques and Strategies to Grow Brand Value,” argues marketers should focus on creating sustainable advantage for their businesses. Whitler is the Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Profess of Business Administration at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Some new findings made by a University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers could lead to better treatments for several diseases, including Alzheimer’s and diabetes. According to a release, these findings have to do with how the human body ensures the proper function of the powerhouses in cells, mitochondria.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan held his first “Run With Jim” event of the year Thursday morning. Students, faculty, staff and members of the Charlottesville community met outside Madison Hall at 7:30 a.m. for a four-mile run around Grounds with the University president.
Truist Wealth has made a $1 million gift to the Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Program and the University of Virginia Alumni Association in honor of the late Richmond business and philanthropic leader Sidney Buford Scott and the brokerage firm founded by his family, Scott & Stringfellow.
Public universities can deliver the most outstanding education to the broadest range of students at the most affordable price. That’s the message of Forbes’ 2021 ranking of top colleges. For the first time ever on a national ranking of America’s best colleges, a public school, the University of California at Berkeley, is in the No. 1 spot (In 2009 West Point topped our list, but military academies are slightly different animals). Of the top 25 schools in the Forbes ranking, six are public, including three other U.C.s, the University of Michigan and the University of Florida. (UVA ranks No. 30....